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CNIL Imposes Record €325 Million Fine on Google: A Watershed Moment for ePrivacy Enforcement

Goodwin on 9/9/2025

The French data protection authority, Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), imposed a €325 million fine on Google on September 1, 2025, for displaying advertisements in Gmail without prior user...more

Getting to Know Google Analytics 4 for Legal Marketers

Legal Internet Solutions Inc. on 6/28/2023

Why You Should Upgrade to Google Analytics 4 Google Analytics 4 (G.A.4.) has made waves since its launch, and Google has been nudging people to upgrade for the past two years. Why? Google is essentially making it mandatory to...more

One More Thing from 2022 with Team LISI

Legal Internet Solutions Inc. on 1/6/2023

Hey, podcast listeners. I am Taryn Elliott, director of client success and marketing at LISI, and this is LISI’s All the Things podcast. Team LISI is in the hot seat for this month’s episode of One More Thing. Robyn Addis,...more

Danish DPA Follows Suit and Becomes the Latest EU Data Protection Authority to Conclude that the Use of Google Analytics is...

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 10/3/2022

In a recent announcement, Datatilsynet, the Danish Data Protection Authority (“Danish DPA”), declared that the Google Analytics tool does not comply with the GDPR’s requirements for international transfers. As such, it...more

Google Analytics Runs Afoul of GDPR

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 7/8/2022

Recent reports from several European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs), the bodies empowered to regulate consumer privacy under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), have ruled that Google Analytics violates the...more

Can European Websites use Google Analytics and Similar Services Without Violating the GDPR?

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C. on 1/20/2022

It has been nearly a year and a half since the Schrems II decision issued in July 2020, which invalidated the European Commission’s adequacy decision for the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework. As a result, companies were forced...more

France Fines Facebook and Google For Violating the EU Cookie Law: You Need to Make it As Easy to Refuse as a Cookie, as it is to...

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C. on 1/10/2022

France recently fined Alphabet Inc’s Google $169 million and Meta Platform’s Facebook $67 million on grounds that the companies violated the EU e-Privacy directive (aka the EU “Cookie Law”) by requiring too many “clicks” for...more

UK Supreme Court Rules for Google in “Class Action”—However, Increased Data Damages and Fines Risk Remains

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 11/11/2021

This year has seen further record GDPR fines levied by Data Protection Authorities, however, a second “under the radar” risk exists—namely, being sued for damages. Today we saw a sea-change case (Lloyd v Google) ruling by...more

Data Privacy Fines and Damages “Double Jeopardy”: UK Supreme Court Hears Google “Class Action”

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 4/30/2021

his week sees a key hearing before the UK Supreme Court in the case of Lloyd v Google, an event long awaited by those familiar with data protection law proceedings in Europe. The case concerns the so-called “safari...more

Privacy and Data Security Alert l January 2020

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. on 1/30/2020

States Consider Privacy and Data Security Legislation - It’s that time of year again, when we see a flood of legislative activity at the state level on privacy and data security laws. A couple of recent examples are below....more

English Court of Appeal Upholds Data Protection Rights and Expands Scope for Representative Actions

A&O Shearman on 10/22/2019

Case Summary - Richard Lloyd, a “champion of consumer protection” and former director of the consumer rights group Which?, is seeking to bring a representative damages claim against Google, on behalf of more than four...more

Court of Justice of the EU Places Limits on the Territorial Scope of the “Right to be Forgotten”

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 10/4/2019

On September 24, 2019, the highest court of the European Union (EU), the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU), attempted to limit the territorial scope and authority of EU data protection authorities in its recent decision...more

Europe’s Supreme Court Places Limits on the Right To Be Forgotten

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 9/24/2019

On Tuesday, September 24, 2019, the European Court of Justice issued two rulings that further defined the right to be forgotten under European laws. The right to be forgotten, also known as the right to erasure, is a...more

The Paris District Court Invalidates 38 Clauses of Google+ Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 4/15/2019

It has been rough weather for Google in France. Three weeks after the French ?Data Protection Authority imposed a record fine against Google for non-compliance with the GDPR, the Paris District Court (“Tribunal de Grande...more

January’s Privacy Blizzard

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 2/5/2019

As predicted, the start of 2019 provided scant respite from the frenetic pace of privacy and cybersecurity developments during 2018. This past month alone, in a blizzard of activity, regulators amended regulations and...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2019 #4

Robinson & Cole LLP on 2/1/2019

In its C-Suite Challenge 2019, The Conference Board surveyed more than 800 CEOs and some 600 other C-Suite executives around the globe, drawing primarily from the U.S., Asia, and Europe. ...more

Privacy and Data Security Client Alert | January 2019

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. on 1/29/2019

Going Deep on the California Consumer Privacy Act - The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has been called the beginning of America’s GDPR. As the most comprehensive privacy law in the United States, entities doing...more

GDPR Alert: Google Gets Biggest Fine Ever Issued by a European Data Protection Authority

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 1/23/2019

On 21 January 2019, the French Data Protection Authority (the “French DPA”) fined Google LLC 50 million euros for breach of the GDPR. As we reported on this blog, just after GDPR became applicable, noyb.eu (None of Your...more

Senate Commerce Committee Conducts Hearing on Consumer Data Privacy; Industry Supports Federal Legislation

WilmerHale on 9/28/2018

On September 26, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation conducted a hearing titled “Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy” to discuss the current state of consumer privacy and whether Congress...more

EU e-Privacy Regulation Raises Stakes for Compliance

Ballard Spahr LLP on 1/13/2017

The European Commission's proposed e-privacy regulation sets forth obligations on handling electronic communications and clarifies obligations for seeking consent for the use of cookies. Meant to bring the e-privacy directive...more

The Digital Download - Alston & Bird’s Privacy & Data Security Newsletter – November 2016

Alston & Bird on 12/7/2016

Updates on the EU: German DPA Publishes First Privacy Shield Guidelines, Requires German-Law Contracts for Transfers. On June 7, 2016, the European Commission adopted the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. One question that many...more

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